Prevention of Floods in the Valley of Stony Brook

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Excerpt from Prevention of Floods in the Valley of Stony Brook: A Report by a Commission As shown on Plate I. the water-shed of Stony brook extends about seven miles, from within the town of Hyde Park, down to the Back Bay park in Boston, and comprises a total area of about 13.92 square miles. This area can again be divided into several subsidiary parts, tributary to the various branches or to different portions of the main stream. Stony brook is maintained by the rain which falls on this water-shed, and which reaches the stream either promptly through surface affluents, or more slowly through subterranean channels. During the summer droughts the flow diminishes to a fractional part of one cubic foot of water per second, during heavy freshets it may increase to a thousand or more cubic feet per second. The immediate channels of the main and principal tributary brooks are not, and never have been, large enough to contain the flow during freshets. At such times the brooks overflow their banks, and spread out over adjoining meadow-lands, which are covered from one to several feet deep. In the original state of the brook and before its surroundings had been modified by human agency, the variations of flow were not so great as at present. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.